History "O" Level

Angles, Saxons and Curios

(total 17 points)

6. Which Strawb lead the first Jacobite Rebellion?Wrong band, you fool! It was Phil Collins, acting on behalf of Emily Brontë. Ed.

Gratuitously obscure joke there: Genesis did a song about “Bobbin’” John Erskine, Eleventh Earl of Mar and how he led the first Jacobite Rebellion (acting on behalf of James II, who had been deposed in favour of William III). The song appeared on the album Wind and Wuthering, hence the Brontë reference.

6. What's on the A side?

Click each image for a high-resolution shot of the label. (Shots open in a new window - while your high resolution holds, fortune and goodwill will surely follow!)

The A-side answers, in order:

Grace Darling; Here It Comes; Benedictus; Shine On Silver Sun

7. Which battle is the subject of “A Soldier's Tale”?

Culloden (or Caluddin) - the battle that finished off the last Jacobite Rebellion. Well, there you go!

8. Whose details appear at the bottom right of this publicity photo? Click for high resolution shot.